Former Vice President wraps up his rally Friday 10/16/2020 in Detroit from C-span.
This is the last 5 minutes of the rally, clip I just learned how to create by joining/creating an account at C-span.org
Opinion piece from Bangor Maine that has some background on where we are today..
'When Clinton’s U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, chaired by civil rights icon Barbara Jordan, delivered its final report, Clinton promised to support the commission’s recommendations. The commission’s core conclusion called for a significant reduction in legal immigration. They recommended eliminating extended family sponsorship (chain migration) and the diversity lottery, and a worksite authorization system targeting employers.'
When the Immigration in the National Interest Act was introduced in 1995 to enact the Jordan Commission reforms, with bipartisan support and Clinton’s endorsement, it was expected to pass. Had it passed, it’s unlikely we would be mired in divisive debates today, with 11 million more illegal immigrants, and Trump in the White House.'
Since taking office, President Trump has consistently kept the refugee ceiling below levels set by his predecessors, and the FY 2021 level is the lowest ever since the refugee admissions program began in 1980. Under former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, the United States resettled an average of about 81,000 refugees each year. President Trump set previous refugee ceilings at 45,000, 30,000, and 18,000 in FY 2018, 2019, and 2020 respectively.
Despite the nominally low refugee ceiling, the United States continues to act as the global leader in refugee assistance. In 2019, the United States gave over $1.7 billion to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The next highest donor was the entire European Union, who gave just $473 million. So while the U.S. lowers its refugee ceiling, it continues to uphold its enormous funding commitments to guarantee aid and resources for the UNHCR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNpP3ohCio
Piers Morgan re September TrumpBiden 'Debate' and Proud Boys
Who are they? In this case, in Utah....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCeY9haPeHA
The Anti-Defamation League and the SCLC label groups hate, sometimes without consideration for what the 'official' labels do to create a polarized field of hate.
Humans are difficult it's good to try to understand them..
This is how the organization got started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPpb-nfQW_8
Into the rabbit hole we go....
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/after-the-qanon-ban-whos-next?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cta
'However, one could say the same thing about a hundred other recent stories that were not policed in the same way, including a similar bait-and-switch involving Melania Trump. A tape of the First Lady saying “Give me a fucking break,” allegedly about border kids, turned out to be something else, even opposite, in context — she was actually swearing at her media critics, not children. But once sanctified by the New York Times and reporters from other major outlets, many of whom dumped the quote online without the context, it’s unlikely to be pulled.
That’s not to stress the victimhood of Melania Trump (Hillary Clinton has been the target of far more nastiness), but to note how arbitrary this all is. “Reputable” news sources tend not to get dinged for the same behavior as small accounts, even when they’re running transparent conspiratorial gibberish. Tales of Cuban sound weapons, killer Putin-dolphins, or a recent Washington Post warning that we are being targeted by a foreign campaign of “perception hacking,” or “manipulating people into thinking they are being manipulated,” represent just a few examples of Approved™ nonsense.
With this new, non-transparent, private star-chamber type system, what content we do and do not see is now dependent upon upper-class intellectual fashions, and the whims of politicians, media employees, and executives at tech firms.' from the above story by Matt Taibbi
Glenn Greenwald's Insight into the CIA as it has worked over the Trump Years.
The CIA’s antipathy toward Trump continued after his election victory. The agency became the primary vector for anonymous illegal leaks designed to depict Trump as a Kremlin agent and/or blackmail victim. It worked to ensure the leak of the Steele dossier that clouded at least the first two years of Trump’s presidency. It drove the scam Russiagate conspiracy theories. And before Trump was even inaugurated, open warfare erupted between the president-elect and the agency to the point where Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer explicitly warned Trump on the Rachel Maddow Show that he was risking full-on subversion of his presidency by the agency:
Democrats, early in Trump’s presidency, saw clearly that the CIA had become one of Trump’s most devoted enemies, and thus began viewing them as a valuable ally. Leading out-of-power Democratic foreign policy elites from the Obama administration and Clinton campaign joined forces not only with Bush/Cheney neocons but also former CIA officials to create new foreign policy advocacy groups designed to malign and undermine Trump and promote hawkish confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia. Meanwhile, other ex-CIA and Homeland Security officials, such as John Brennan and James Clapper, became beloved liberal celebrities by being hired by MSNBC and CNN to deliver liberal-pleasing anti-Trump messaging that, on a virtually daily basis, masqueraded as news.
